♦Mr • Il - EDNAÌ1 ^ ferber JJ. illustrations ' k £ 1 BY CLARK AÇRCW. CoKrlrMt bv Doubled dollars, earned In the laat hour. "Just live minutes,” she said to D irk , trying that way right aloifi}?" to muke her tone bright, her voice gay. “Yes. I thought—they looked pret H e r arms full of vegetables which she tier that w ay—o f eourne \ • . - ' 'es was about to place In the basket at aren't supposed to look pretty, I ex her feet she heard nt her elbow : pect— " she stammered, stopped. “Now. then, where's your license?" “You fix 'ant pretty like that and She turned. A policeman at her side. bring 'em In to me first thing, cr si nd "License?" 'am. M y trade, they like theb stuff “Yeh, you heard me. License. kind of special. Yessir.” Where’s your peddler’s license? You Aa Selina gathered up the reins he got om;, I s'fiose." stood again in his doorway, cool, re­ "W hy, no. No," She stused at route, unllghted cigar In Ills mouth, him,, frill. while hand-trucks rattled past him, "W ell, say, where d’ye think you barrels and boxes thumped to the side­ are, peddlin' without a license I A good w alk In fro n t'o f him, wheels and hoofs mind to run you In. Get along out of and shouts made a great clamor all here, you and the kid. Leave me ketch about him. you around here again I” “We going home now?” demanded “What's the trouble, officer?” said a D irk . "W e going home now f I ’m woman's voice. A smart open carriage hungry.” of the type known asea victoria, with “Yea, lamb.” T w o dollars In her l two chestnut horses whose harness pocket. A ll yesterday's grim toll, and ' «hone w ith metal. “ What's the trouble, Reilly?" The woman stepped out of all today's, and n in th s of labor be­ hind those two days. Tw o dollars In the victoria. the pocket o f her black calico petticoat. “ Woman peddling without a license, "W e'll get something to eat when we Mrs. Arnold. You got to watch ’em like a hawk. . . . Get along wld drive out a ways. Some m ilk and bread and cheese.” J yon, then." He put a hand on Selina s shoulder and g a v c h e r a gentle push. T he sun wus very hot. She took the There shook Selina from head to foot boy's hat ofT, passed her lender work- sucli a passion, such a storm of out­ calloused hand over the dump hair raged sensibilities, ns to cause street, that clung to bis forehead. victoria, sllk-clnd woman, horses, and She made» up her mind to drive east policeman to swim and shiver In a haze and then south. Pervus hod sometimes achieved a. late sule to outlying gro­ before her eyes. The rage of a fas­ tidious woman who had had an alien cers. Jan's face I f she came home w ith h alf the load still on tfie wagon 1 male hand put upon her. H e r face was white. H er eyes glowed black, And whut of the unpaid bills? She enormous She seemed tall, majestic had, perhaps, th irty dollars, all told. even. She owed four hundred. M o » than “T a k e your hand off m o!” Her that. speech was clipped, vibrant *H ow F ear shook her. She told herself dare yon touch me I How dare yon I she was tired, nervous. T hat terrible Take your hand!— " The blazing eyes week. And now this. The heat. Soon In the white mask. H e took his band they'd be home, she and D irk . Tbe comfort o f It. the peace of IL Safe, de­ from her shoulder. The red surged into her face. A tanned weather­ sirable, suddenly dear. No work for beaten toil-worn woman, her abundant a woman, th ia ! W ell, perhaps they were right. hair skewered Into a knob and hebi by D o w , Wabakh avenue, w ith the L a long gray-black hairpin, her full skirt trains thundering overhead and her grimed w ith the mod of the wagon horxea, frightened and uneasy with wheel, a pair of old side boots on het the unaccustomed roar and clangor of slim feet, a grotesquely battered old traffic. It was terrib ly hot. felt hat (her husband's) on her bead, The boy's eyes popped w ith excite­ her arms full <4 ears of sweet cor« ment and bewilderment. and carrots and radishes and bunches "P re tty soon,” Selina said. Tbe of beets; a woman with bad teeth?flat muscles showed white beneath the skin breasts— even then Julie hsd known o f her Jaw. "P retty soon. P rairie her by ber eyas. And sue had stared avenne. Great big houses and lawns, and then run to her In .h e r silk dress all quleL” She even managed a amlle. ai d her plumed hat, erylng, “Oh, 8e- " I like It b e tte r home." I'n a ! M.v dear! My deer!" with a P ra irie avenue at last, turning In rf sob 'o f horror and pity. “M.v dear!" Sixteenth street. I t was like calm And had taken S elin s carrots beets a fte r a storm. Selina felt battered, com. and radlabea In her arms. The spent vegetables lay scattered aU'kbVM' .Tbcs «Pother thuWlt SMB? to oo the sidewalk In front of Jnlle Hem- pel Arnold's great stone house on P rairie avenue. But strangely enough It had been Selina who bad done the comforting, petting Julie's plump silkan shoulder and saying, over and over, soothingly, as to a child, "There, there 1 It's all right, Julie. Iris all right. Don't cry. What's there to cry fo r i Bh-sht It's all right." Julie lifted Fier head In Ita modish Mack plumed hat, wiped her eyes, blew er uose. "Get along w ith you,^do." he said to Reilly, the pollevwan. using his ' ery words to Selins " I ’m going to report you to Mr. Arnold, see If 1 don’t. And you know w hat that means." “W ell, now, M rs Arnold, ma'am, I was only doing my duty. How cud I know the lady was a friend of yours. Sure, I — " H e surveyed Selina, cart, jaded horses wilted vegetables. "And why not 1" demanded Julie with superb unreasonableness. “Why not, I ’d like to know. Do get along w ith yon." H e got along, a defeated officer of the law*, and u bitter. And now It was Julie who surveyed Helinä, cart, D irk, Jaded horses, wilted left-over vege- A P R IL ( R U R A L E N T E R P R IS E O f the DeJong team and the Dejong dog Pom. and the DeJong vegetable wagon there was absolutely no sign and then It came." Hl-rh P ra irie was rendered unfit fot “B eauty!" exclaimed Julie, weakly. Why suffer from headaches? work throughout the next twenty-f, She stared at Selina In the evident b e ­ hours. lie f that this work w o rn haggard In the twelve years' transition from woman bemoaning her lack o f per­ batcher to packer Aug Ham pel had sonal pulchritude. taken on a certain authority and dis "Yes. A ll the worth-while tid in g In tlncrton. Now., at fifty-five, his halt life W .irk that you love. And g owth was gray, relieving tbe too-ruddy coloi - gr,iwtfWnnd watching people grow. of hia face In the laat few years he Peeling very strougly about things had grown very deaf In one ear, eo that and then developing that feeling to— when you spoke to him he looked at to make something fine come of It.” yon intently. This had given him s She threw out her hands In « futile reputation for keenness and great gesture "That's whet I mean by | A lb any, Oregon character insight, when it was mere).' beauty. I want D irk to have it." the protective trick of a man who doef "F o r pity's sake!” pleaded Julie, tbe not want to confess that be la hard ot literal, "let’s stop talking and do some­ bearing. thing. Pa, you've probably got It all Selina's domain he surveyed with a fixed In your mind long ago. I t ’s time mere dress, absurdly old fashioned; a keen and comprehensive eye. we heard It. Here Selina was one of le tte r telling about the Infanta Eulalle "You want to sell?” the moot popular girls In Miss Plater's of Spain and signed Julie Hempel A r­ “No." school. and lots of people thought tbe n o ld ; a pair of men's old side-boots "That's good. Few years from now prettiest. And now Just look at ber 1" w ith mud caked on them ; a crude this land w ill be worth money." He A flicker of the old flame leaiwd up sketch, almost obliterated now. done had spent a bare fifteen minutes tak­ In Selina. " F la tte re r!" she murmured on a torn scrap o f brown paper and ing shrewd valuation of the property Aug Hempel stood up. " I f you think showing the HH.vmnrket with the wag­ from fields to barn, from barn to giving your whole life to making the ons vegetable-laden and the men house. “ Well, wbat do yon want to hoy happy Is going to make him happy gathered beneath the street fin res, and the patient farm horses—Roelf's child- J do, heh, Selina?" you ain t so smart aa I took you for Ish sketch. j You go trying to live somebody elses life for them.1' (T o ba continued) “I'm not going to live bis life for him. I want to show him how to live It so that p e ll gat full value nut ot It." The way additions to tho E n ter­ "Keeping him out of the Haym arket prise "lu c k y dollar elaes '• are If the Haym arket's the natural place for him won't do that. How can you coming in is pleasing to the pub­ tell I Monkeying w ith what's to be lisher, and the following, which I'm out at the yards every day, In and accompanied one of them laat out of the cattle pens, talking to the week, encourages renewed effort to drovers and herder«, mixing In with keep the paper improving ; the buyers. I can tell tbe weight of a “ Inclosed you will find a check hog and what he's worth Just by u look for one dollar, for which please at him, and a steer, too. My son-in send us your paper for one year. Have YOUR EYES Examined I F. M, French & Son | Jewelers, Optometrists We want you to investigate our • It Tickles Us FURNITURE S DEPARTMENT* when your wants are in this line. Our stock is $ attractive in both design and price. We call your special attention to the DE LUXE BEDSPRING built for comfort and durability ’ H ILL &<° Hal aey Oregon « ll i e y were seated , u uie cool and unexpectedly pleasing little parlor with Ita old Dutch luster set gleainluf softly In the cabinet. Its three rows tables. "Selina, w hatever In the world 1 of hooks, Its a ir of comfort and usage W hat are you doing w ith — " She Selina clasped her hands tightly In caught sight of Selina's absurd boots her lap— those hands that, from muck then and she begnn to cry again. At grubbing In the soil, had taken on that Selina’s overwrought nerves something of the look of the gnarled snapped and she began to ladgb, hys­ things they tended. T he nulls were terically. It frightened Jnlle, that short, discolored, broken. The palms laughter. “Selina, don't I Come In the rough, calloused. The whole story of house with me. W hat are you laugh­ the last twelve years of Selina’s life ing a t ! Selina !” , was w ritten In her tw o hands. W ith shaking finger Selina was point­ “I wnnt to stay here, find work the ing at the vegetables that lay tumbled farm, and muke It pay. I can. I'm at her feet. "Do you aee that cab­ not going to grow Just the common bage, Julie? Do you remember how gsrden stuff any more— not much, nny I used to despise Mrs. Tebbltt's be­ way. I ’m going to specialize In the cause she used to have boiled cabbage fine things— the kind the South W atei on Monday nights?" street commission men w a n t I want “T hat's nothing to laagb at. Is it? to drain the low land. TJle It. That Stop laughing this minute, Belina land liusn't been used* for years. Il P e a k e !" ought to be rich growing Intel by Tiow, “I'll stop. I'v e stopped now I was If once It's properly dvaiubd. And I Just laughing at my Ignorance, Rweat want D irk to go to- school. Good and blood and health and youth go schools. I never wapt my son to go Into every cabbage. Did you know to the Hnymarlçet Never. Never. that, Julte? One doesn't despise them "M y life doesn't count, except, a« nt food, knowing t h a t . . . (.'«me, something for Qlrk to use. I'm done climb down, D irk . H e re ’s a lady moth­ er used to know— oh, years and yhars ago, when she was a glrL Thousands of years ago," C h a p te r I X The best thing for Dlrtt. The best thing for D irk . It was thé phrase (hat repeated Itself over and over Is Se­ lina’s spec,Si during the days that fol­ lowed. In thia period o f bewilderment and fatigue Julie had attempted to rake charge of Selina m odi as sb* had done a dosen years before ot the rime of Simeon Peake's dram atic death. Apd now, as then, she pressed into service her wonder-working fath er and bound- en slave, August Hempel "PaJI be out toraorrov'and I I I prob­ ably come w ith him. I ’ve got s com­ mittee meeting, but I can easily—■" "You said— did you say yoor father would ba out tomorrow I Out where f" “T o your place. Farm." “But why should lie? It's a little twenty-flve-acre truck farm, and half o f it under w ater a good deal of tlie time.” "Pa'll find a ose for IL never fear. H e won't say much, but he'll think of things And then everything will be all right." A species of ugly pride now pos­ sessed Selina. " I don't need help. Really I don't, Jnlle, dear It's never 1 een like today. Never before. We were getting on very well. Pervu* and I. Then a fte r Pervue’ death so sud­ denly like that I was frightened* T e r­ rib ly frightened. About D irk I wanted him to have everything. Beautiful things I wanted his life to be beauti­ ful. L ife can be so ugly, J u lie Yon don’t know. Yon don't know." "W ell. now. that's why I say. W e ll he ont tomorrow, pa and I. Dirk's go­ ing to have everything beautiful. We'll see to t h a t " I t was then that Selina had said, "But that's Just It. I want to do It myself, for btm. I can " I wont to give him all these thing« myself." "But that's selfish." " I don't mean to be. I Just want to do tbe beat thing for D irk ." I t was shortly a fte r noon that High Prairie, hearing the unaccustomed chug o f a motor, rushed to Its windows or porches to behold Belina DeJong In her mashed Mack felt hat and D irk wav­ ing his battered straw wildly, riding up the Halsted road toward the DeJong faun In a brlgbt red «Otoaiohlle that had* «haltered J the oqrvta of every CXoner'a'lciUU U Lad «MU MB law, Michael Arnold, alts up In the o f­ We decided that a dollar could not fice all day In our plant, dictating let be better spent. We certainly like ters. H is clothes they never stink ot your paper and admire you for the pens like mine do. . . . Now I always speaking your optoioos on ain ’t saying anything against him, things. W hile occasionally we Julie« But 1 bet my grandson Eu­ differ with vou oo a subject, we gene"— he repeated It, stressing the know that you are honost in your name so that you sensed his dislike of It— "Eugene, it he comes Into the bust views and enjoy them just the On most things we heartily nets at all when he grows up, won't go tame. agree w ,th your opinions." within smelling distance of the yards The foiegoing was not sent for H is office, I bet, will be In a new offlci« building on, say Madison street, with publication, and, in absence ol a view of the lake. L ife ! You'll be xpiicit permission to give the hoggin' It all yourself and not know writer’ s name, we withhold it. It" “And I suppose," retorted Belina, spiritedly, “thnt when your son-in-law. Michael Arnold, Is your age he'll be telling Eugene how he roughed It In an office over at the yards In the old days. These w ill be the old days." August Hempel laughed good-humor­ edly. “T h a t can be, Belina. T h a t cun be." H e chewed his cigar and settled to the business at hand. "You w ant to drain and tile. Plant high grade stuff. You got to have a man on the place that knows what's what, not this Rip Van W inkle we saw in the cabbage field. New horses, A wagon. I w ill get you the horses, a bargain, at the yards." H e took out a long flat check book. H e began w rit­ ing In It with a pen that he took from fits ‘ pocket— some to rt of marvelous pen thst seemed already filled with ink and thst you unscrewed at the ,top and then ecrewed at the bottom He •squinted through hie cigar smoke, the heck hoek propped on his knee. He (o re 'o ff the check w ith a clean rip. “For a «■starter,” be said. Ils held It mt to Seljnn "There Jhow I” exclaimed J u lie ,- In trium phant satisfaction. T h a t ires more lik e ,It. Doing something. But Belina did not take the cheek. I She sat vary still In bar chair, her hands folded. ’ “T h a t Isn't the regular way," she said. August Hempel was screwing the fop on his fountain pan again. "Regular ¡ X •v a y ? - fo r jv h a t V . . , , , ' ft "I'm borrowing this money, not f*k - ng It. Oh, yet, I am 1 I couldn't get along w ithout IL I realize that now. a fte r yesterday. Yesterday 1 But 1» dve years— seven— I ’ll pay It h a rk ."' Then, at a balf-nttered protest from lulls. “T hat's tba only way I'll take It. It's for D irk . But I'm going to earn It and pay It back I want a— " she as being enormously businesslike, and unconsciously enjoying lt -* " a — an I. O A promise to pay you back Just as ns soon a t I can T hat's huslness, isn't it? And I ’ll sign IL ” "Bure," ssld Aug Hempel, and un ' «crewed bis fountain pen again. “Sure list's business." Very serious, he scribbled again, busily, on s piece of *M y L if t Doesn’t Count, Except as Paper. A year later, when Belina hsd learned many things, among them that •om ethlng for D irk to Ute." simple and compound Interest on with anything else Oh, I don't mean money loaned ere not mere problem^ that I ’m discouraged, or disappointed devised to fill Duffy’s arithm etic in In life, or anything like that. I mean her school-teaching days, she went to I started out with the wrong Ides I August Hempel between laughter and know better now I'm here to keep tears. D irk from making the mistakes I "You didn’t say one word about In­ made." terest, thst day. Not a word W hat a Aug Hempel’a tone was one of medl- little fool you muet have thought me.” ration, not o f argument. “It don’t Between friends." protested August work out that way. seems About mis­ Hempel. take» it's funny. You ro t to make your But— "No,” Belina Insisted “In t e r - ' o w n ; and not only that. If you try to set.” keep people from making theirs they I guess I better s ta rt me a bank get mad.” H e whistled softly through pretty soon I f yon keep on so business i his teeth following this utterance and tike." tapped the chair seat with h it finger. I Ten y e a n later he was actually tba “It's beauty!" Belina said then, a l­ ■ontrolllng power In the Yards A R ang most passionately. Aug Hempel and e ra bank. And Belina had tbe origi­ Julie plainly could make nothing of nal I O. U. w ith Its "Paid In Full. this remark, so she went on, eager, ex­ Aug Hempel," carefully tucked eway planatory. " I used to think that If with other keepsakes th a t she foolishly you wanted beauty— tf you wanted It treasured— ridiculous scraps that no hard enough and hopefully enough— It > nBs but the woold here undwateod er came to you. 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